Emoji
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 6 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Lenny's Podcast 
Top Founders 
the a16z Podcast 
20VC
8 statements about Emoji, every show
Schaad: Standard emojis on landing pages are an immediate AI tell
“Whenever I see the use of emojis, even though they're not the system emojis, I feel like it's a little lazy. And so I feel like LLMs kind of take the easy path because they don't have any IP really themselves. They're just like big models kind of cobbling thin…”
Lessin: Using emojis in business communication is risky and rarely worth it
“Emojis almost feel like jokes to me, which is like, tell them at your own risk and they're probably not worth it.”
Chan: Western messaging culture will soon transition from emojis to stickers
“In the West, we've been so obsessed with emojis for so long, but that is, in my mind, very obviously going to transition to stickers quite soon, because you can just convey so much more information in one single sticker versus an emoji.”
Unicode Emoji Criteria Explicitly Forbids Celebrities, Deities, and Logos
“Also, there's one of the more interesting rules, which is no celebrities, deities, or logos.”
Lee: Existing Vendor Adoption Is Key to Unicode Emoji Approval
“One of the easiest things, actually, to get emoji passed is showing that a vendor uses it.”
Benenson: Emoji Popularity Stems From Text Saturation in Digital Communication
“And I'll go further and say that a lot of people ask me why emoji have become so popular. And I think it's tied to the fact that we now are just inundated with text. We live in a text culture, right? We communicate via text. Our Careers are run over email. We …”
Teenage messaging and emoji apps are silly, fleeting investments without durability
“A lot of folks are investing in something that I find kind of silly. Oh, I'm building apps for teenagers to talk with each other, or I'm building an app for people to sort of like you know, send emojis to people. I don't understand those markets. You know, the…”
Stein: Text messaging is dry and standard emojis are too limited
“For us we actually did see a problem in messaging where text messaging is very dry. You can be really misunderstood in a simple text. And as it's becoming a huge part of daily life where you're constantly texting people we didn't want to be confined to really …”